Secularisation theory has also been criticised for its Eurocentrism, ignoring high levels of
religiosity in the USA, a case of 'religious exceptionalism'where church attendance remained …

Feminists need and will always have antagonistic relationships not only with the world but
among themselves. In this chapter, the author aims to unpack some of these limitations and …

Around the globe, religiously inspired concepts of liberty, equality, and life are converging
around the issue of gender equality and sexual integrity. Modern liberal democracy and with …

Religious feminists of many faiths are politically and socially active. While religious feminism
has begun to attract scholarly attention, the political interaction of religious feminism with the …

This chapter defines and then engages a feminist lens to explore gender within peace and
conflict studies. The heuristic of a continuum, a series of elements that share a basic …

This essay attempts a 'state of the field'examination of a branch of feminist thinking within the
global, namely women's religious thought. Variants of religious feminism and women's …

When religion becomes politicized, gender often is involved too. Consider the discussions
about the hijab in Western Europe, the 'culture wars' between prochoice and prolife activists …